On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:55:24PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2009 16:02:27 Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > Here is a long overdue update of audio/sox.
> >
> > There were a number of choices to make and some people are bound to
> > disagree with some of them.  Briefly:
> > * I have dropped the snprintf() patches after failing to get them
> >   accepted upstream.
> > * Don't modularize the format converters.
> > * Drop flavors and just add most external libraries sox supports.
> >   I've drawn the line somewhat arbitrarily at codec collections
> >   like ffmpeg that are badly integrated into sox.
> >
> > This update does not include a sndio backend.  I would like to
> > provide one, but I'd prefer that to go in separately, plus I don't
> > want to delay the update any longer.
> 
> Personally I think that libao would be a better option over the Sun backend
> for the short term until a sndio backend is added to SOX, which buys you
> sndio support for now. It is a fairly small library with no external 
> dependencies. With the other dependencies, which I think are fine and a good 
> balance, I don't see this as adding much and it goes away when the sndio 
> backend is added.
> 
> I haven't tested what you have posted here yet but looking it over it looks
> good otherwise.

personally, I don't think there any point in an audio backend for
sox.  aucat can read from stdin and sox can output to stdout.

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